BILL REQ. #:  S-0552.1 

Read first time 01/13/2003.   UNDER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES, READ SECOND AND THIRD TIMES AND ADOPTED.

     WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2003 Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature;
     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That the following cutoff dates apply to all bills, memorials, and joint resolutions with the exception of budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, initiatives to the legislature, and alternatives to initiatives to the legislature:
     (1) Wednesday, March 5, 2003, the fifty-second day, will be the final day to read in committee reports in the house of origin, with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Highways and Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;
     (2) Monday, March 10, 2003, the fifty-seventh day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Highways and Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;
     (3) Wednesday, March 19, 2003, the sixty-sixth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;
     (4) Friday, April 4, 2003, the eighty-second day, will be the final day to read in committee reports on bills from the opposite house with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Highways and Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;
     (5) Monday, April 7, 2003, the eighty-fifth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Highways and Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and
     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 18, 2003, the ninety-sixth day, neither house may consider any bills, memorials, or joint resolutions except initiatives to the legislature and alternatives to such initiatives, messages pertaining to amendments, matters of differences between the two houses, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 2003 Regular Session of the Legislature.